Sutter-Yuba County Biographies

HANS HENRICHSEN

Transcribed by: Kathy Sedler

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            The wide-awake, dependable and ever accommodating agent for the 
Southern Pacific Railroad Company, Hans Henrichsen, enjoys an enviable 
popularity among the railway officials in Northern California, and also with the 
traveling public.  He was born in Glenn County, Cal., on February 24, 1882, the 
son of Henry and Anna (Henning) Henrichsen, who came to California when they 
were young, and were married here.  Mr. Henrichsen was a farmer, and a good one, 
too, who went after results and got them, coaxing the earth to yield bountifully 
for him; and when he closed his career in 1885, all who knew him mourned his 
loss, and testified to his high character as a man.  Mrs. Henrichsen is still 
living, the center of a circle of esteeming friends.
            Having had parents of the type that favored education, Hans 
Henrichsen availed himself of the best advantages for schooling to be had in his 
locality.  He early entered the employ of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, 
and ever since he has been one of the indispensable units in the Sacramento 
Division of that great corporation.  He had charge of one station after another 
before coming to Live Oak; and he was appointed here in 1907.  He belongs to the 
Order of Railroad Telegraphers, and is popular with those who know him as a 
master of the key.
            At Gridley, in the year 1904, Mr. Henrichsen was married to Miss Mae 
Chittim, a native of California; and they have two children, Violet and Walter.  
Violet was married in July, 1923, to Mr. W. J. Hagerty, of the Chronicle staff, 
and resides in San Francisco.  Walter will graduate from the Live Oak Union High 
School with the class of 1924.  Mr. and Mrs. Henrichsen have a trim fruit 
orchard, and are devoted to horticulture.  They are both deeply interested in 
the past, present and future of this section.  Fraternally, Mr. Henrichsen is a 
member of the Modern Woodmen of America.
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p. 1286